Geoffrey York is one of the longest-serving foreign correspondents in Canada, and one of The Globe and Mail's longest-serving journalists. After a 13-year career in bureaus and beats in Canada, he has worked in foreign bureaus since 1994, beginning in Moscow (1994 to 2002), then in Beijing (2002 to 2008) and then in Johannesburg (2009 to the present).
He has won awards for his investigative reporting and for his coverage of Indigenous issues in Canada and abroad. Geoffrey covered the Oka crisis in 1990 as one of the few journalists who remained inside the siege during its final weeks. He has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere.
He has written or co-written three books: The Dispossessed (about Indigenous issues in Canada); People of the Pines (about the Oka crisis); and The High Price of Health (about medical politics in Canada). Two of his books were national bestsellers in Canada.
